As a matter of fact, I know exactly what happens and I can prove it. However, this information is only given out on a strictly need-to-know basis.
What do I think happens after death?
None of your business.
When you die, you lose conscioussness but your spirit lives on. Conscioussness is a part of the human vessel, not the spiritual self.
Phone calls taper off.
Put me in with the reincarnation believers.
Put me in the nothing but worm food camp.
Unknowable from a spiritual viewpoint. Physically, uh, buh-bye.
No more bills!
another vote for oblivion.
Worm food.
Since my computer’s processor can no longer compute sums or run “Quake 3” when it’s turned off, I vote for nothingness.
Worm food.
unclviny
If there is a heaven and Hell, I have lived my life in such a way that I can be happy with my achievments. However , if most of you are right and there is nothingness, I have lost nothing by having faith. However if I am right, you will have lost everything.
That’s Pascal’s Wager, swingchick, and it doesn’t fly, for lots and lots of reasons. To begin with, even if you choose faith, how do you know you chose the right faith? To my perspective, you’re less likely to choose correctly in that case – in other words, picking one of the tens of thousands of available belief systems – than in the 50/50 “life after death or not?” dichotomy.
I say it’s lights out for me; it’s an end to consciousness that is so unfathomable (how do you imagine something without a perspective from which to imagine it?) that humans have concocted all sorts of fantasy workarounds in order to cope with it.
Oh, and everybody else lives on, pretending I’ve “gone to a better place” in order to deal with the loss, until it’s their turn.
Wise-ass answer: The reports of my death will NOT be an exaggeration.
Actual answer: Consciousness leaves the body, returns to source. No ‘’'heaven or hell" thingy. Source lovingly welcomes all, regardless of our earthly actions. After that, I don’t know.
0rbytal, I apologise. There are personal issues in my life at the moment and those issues sometimes cause me to behave abominably. I had no right to castigate you or to assign motives to you.
Rot in a box.
Return to nonexistence, as far as my conscious self is concerned. Gradual effacement of all traces of my presence.
If there is anything eternal about me, it is already in its eternal state, and nothing about that will change in the least. The eternal self is not just never-ending, but completely removed from time, change, and experience. And not good for a damn thing other than platonistic arguments.
(To be quite clear for the purpose of the poll, I belong in the “Nothing / decomposition” category.)
Our standings:
Nothing———————————————30
Reunite with ancestors———————1
Reincarnation————————————3
Heaven / Hell ————————————2
Enlightenment————————————2
Meet Cecil ——————————————1
No way of knowing—————————–3
None of my business—————————1
Spirit lives on (Nothing else?)————–1
Ambiguous answer——————————1
Louisb, i forgive you…
If VarlosZ’s was the ambiguous answer, then you can put him in the Nothing camp.
As for me, although I’d like to have a “spirit” that “lives on”, truly believing so requires a faith I don’t have. So, nothing.